did I read correctly that the 5 Spaceships to be sold to Virgin Galactic will be able to carry 5 people aboard?!??!?!

Yeps

"The British entrepreneur is having five "spaceliners" built. His versions will be alittle bigger the SpaceShipOne and will be able to carry 5 people. Its expected to cost between $100,000-$200,000 for a ride. "

"It will make suborbital flights lasting three hours overall, with about seven minutes of weightlessness. It will fly a little higher than SpaceShipOne in order to make the experience longer and even more impressive."

Some of the designs Burt said he was 'fooling around with' during the Black Sky documentary look interesting. I'm not sure if the rendering was for the 'stretch' SSO or his SpaceShipTwo orbital craft, but is seemed to have tandem engines (one atop the other).

_________________It looks like something designed by Gerry Anderson, so it was a dead cert the SSO would win...Currently Saving for: The first ticket off this rock.Currently Waiting for: Doom 3 for Mac.

The sketches that Rutan showed on the documentary were for his Tier 2 and Tier 3 projects, I dont believe that they had anything to do with the Virgin deal...

actually i'm pretty sure it was ss2 and a possible tier 2 orbital design- burt's said tier three with be for extra-orbital operations (aka, the moon), and i don't think he's started work on that , though we can always hope .